Aaron Parecki

It seems pretty likely there will be a whole wave of new remote working apps and services created in the next few months, as all those silicon valley engineer sit at home and get frustrated by tiny details of the stuff they use today.

My bf's first language is french, and he forgot the word for "lid", so instead he held up the pot and asked "where is his hat?"

My German ex boyfriend couldn’t remember what a caterpillar was called, so it became a walking eyebrow.

That’s actually a direct translation of the German word, “Walkendeaugenbrowgen”.

Not to sound like a hipster, but I’ve been avoiding people a looooonnng time before COVID-19 made it cool.

everyone's telling me not to "check my 401K," as if i know how

I absolutely love this camera, get it. It’s amazing 4K moving time lapses and the size of a large stick of gum.

To describe an RSS reader to someone who doesn’t know what it is, it might be time to say it’s “like podcasts, but for reading.”

So what’s going to happen to travel influencer Instagram in the next couple months

“Don’t look at your investments” is the “don’t touch your face” of fiscal-emotional stability.

but seriously don’t look at your investments

crazy how you don't learn about shallots until your late 20s

The CNBC app is not really formatted to deal with four-digit market drops.

As a programmer, it’s 💯 × more important to not over-engineer than to “avoid tech debt”.

You’ll have to refactor and throw away code in the future anyway—it’s impossible to know what requirements will be.

The less code you have, the easier it is to replace.

Due to #COVIDー19, all TCP applications will be converted to UDP to avoid handshakes. 🤓

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n

The greatest benefit to a schedule is having your analytics and data consistent so you can tell when something may have changed algorithmically.

But I have no reason to think they’ll be orders-of-magnitude wrong. Even if your personal risk of death is very, very low, don’t mock decisions like canceling events or closing workplaces as undue “panic”. 26/n

From a BBC News story:

Facebook is closing its London office for the weekend …Staff members have been told to work from home until Monday.

Wait.

Just completed the first full OAuth round-trip request, ever. Ping me for more info on how to get started with OAuth on Twitter. :-)